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GM Safeguarding Children Procedures Survey

23 Nov 2017 - 15:40 by michelle.foster

Greater Manchester is currently assessing the use of their online multi agency Greater Manchester Safeguarding Children Procedures which the Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board adopts.

To complete the short survey, visit: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/C7XGFBQ by 30 November 2017.

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Young Manchester launch new partnership with the #iwill Fund thanks to National Lottery funding

22 Nov 2017 - 12:54 by michelle.foster

New Manchester charity, Young Manchester, has partnered with the #iwill Fund to create a £2 million partnership to support social action through youth and play provision across the City of Manchester.

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City Year UK Leadership Development Programme

22 Nov 2017 - 12:52 by michelle.foster

City Year UK believe that young people can change the world. For a full academic year the City Year volunteers, aged between 18-25 years, act as role models and mentors to children in schools in disadvantaged communities, helping them to reach their full potential.

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Women’s Cycling Grants

21 Nov 2017 - 15:08 by michelle.foster

As part of Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) 2018 Women’s Cycling campaign, and in support of International Women’s Day, they are offering the opportunity for clubs, groups or organisations, located within Greater Manchester, to apply for funding towards events/activities that will encourage women to cycle and make journeys by bike. Transport for Greater Manchester

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Tech for Good 2018

21 Nov 2017 - 15:06 by michelle.foster

Comic Relief with Paul Hamlyn Foundation has launched another UK Tech for Good funding programme. This will fund up to 12 digital projects each with grants of up to £47,000. Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are inviting proposals to develop or scale web, mobile or internet based technologies which deliver new or improved services to beneficiaries. Comic Relief

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Lemn Sissay’s Manchester Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers needs the public’s generous support

21 Nov 2017 - 14:59 by michelle.foster

Volunteers in Manchester, led by poet Lemn Sissay, are fundraising to provide a Christmas Dinner for 50 local Care Leavers, and they need the support of the local community to make it happen. The Lemn Sissay Foundation

For many Care Leavers in the UK, Christmas can be a difficult time, a day spent alone in a bedsit or hostel, feeling isolated and with nowhere else to go.

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Free For Arts Festival 2018

21 Nov 2017 - 14:55 by michelle.foster

Free For Arts Festival (FFAF) is an idea that has been handed over to different Manchester collectives and welcoming local audience to experience arts for free since 2009. Art Vanguard (AV) has been offered to be the host for FFAF 2018 and would like to transform 3 central Manchester venues into the worlds of Fairytale, Dream, and Fantasy. Art Vanguard are encouraging community groups to take part and collaborate in the festival and they would like to build awareness about the festival.

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Charity Commission report: Taken on Trust: awareness and effectiveness of charity trustees in England and Wales

21 Nov 2017 - 14:53 by michelle.foster

The Charity Commission has published a major new report into trusteeship which calls for changes in the way boards are recruited and supported. Charity Commission

The report, Taken on Trust: the Awareness and Effectiveness of Charity Trustees in England and Wales, finds that there are 150,000 fewer trustees in the UK than previously believed. Trustee payment remains relatively rare, with only 2,000 charities – 1.6 per cent – paying trustees.

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